=1870-1871.=--Committee of Public Defense.
=1871-1873.=--I. Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877); appointed President
of the French Republic by the National Assembly, 1871; resigned, 1873.
=1873-1879.=--II. Marshal M. E. Patrice Maurice MacMahon (1808-1893);
elected president, 1873.
=1879-1887.=--III. François Paul Jules Grévy (1807-1891); elected
president, January, 1879; reelected, 1885; resigned, December, 1887.
=1887-1894.=--IV. Marie-François Sadi-Carnot (1837-1894); elected
president, December, 1887; assassinated, June, 1894.
=1895-1899.=--V. Jean Pierre Paul Casimir-Perier (1847-1907); elected
president, June, 1894; resigned, January, 1895.
=1899-1906.=--VI. François Felix Faure (1841-1899); elected president,
January, 1895; died, February, 1899.
=1906-1913.=--VII. Emile François Loubet (1838- ----); elected
president, February, 1899.
=1913- ----.=-- VIII. Raymond Poincaré (1860- ----); elected president,
1906.